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Understanding Wealth
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by Eric Goldscheider
By the time Chloe McKenzie ’14 had finished her junior year at Amherst, she had a position lined up as a mortgage trader at a major investment bank. She graduated the next year and headed off to Wall Street for a job she loved, but she soon realized that it only “checked one of the boxes” she needed to be happy.
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Coming Back From the Dead
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by Eric Goldscheider
A volcanic eruption wiped out most animal and plant life on remote Kasatochi Island. This makes it an ideal location to study biogeography.
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A New Kind of Skepticism
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by Katherine Duke '05
In an article inspired by an Amherst reunion and published in Science, four classmates address climate change—and changes in the way people argue about it.